Just a quick post...

Blogger man hasn't gone AWOL since the re-launch but the better half had her knee reconstruction this week so instead of Brad the Uber-Nerd it's been Nurse Brad hahaha

Things will be back to normal next week and Dominic - haven't forgotten about you! I will get back to you re network stuff soon as I'm not delivering drinks, fluffing pillows and assiting Cripple McHobbly around the house :)

I had one of the delegates at TechEd ask me about some issues connecting to Xbox Live and having dropouts on a specific game although from the chat everything sounded like it was on the money with the setup. Very confusing indeed.

Most in the Xbox community in Aus swear by Orbytel's Networking FAQ on the Xbox.com Aussie Forums

http://forums.xbox.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=33479846

If there are any follow up or specific q's either post a comment here or join the forums and ask in that thread

Just a quick summary of the morning's goodness in the TechEd MAN CAVE and other random goodness from here in the Gold Coast

I've put together the first of my Top 10's for the NEW Pidgeo.com which are my sorta half serious 10 reasons why every IT Pro and Developer should trade their first born to attend TechEd Australia

One of the hats I am wearing this year at TechEd is the MAN CAVE Lead. As part of the Microsoft Showcase that is dominating the exhibition area here at TechEd, we have many sections that our technical experts and marketing folks can show how Microsoft technology is applies in the home, the office, the enterprise and the datacentre, and my part is the MAN CAVE. As space is limited this is more of an example of a MAN CAVE in an apartment, but basically we have a 55in HD display, a HP Envy 17 laptop, Logitech speakers and of course the jewel in the crown, the Xbox 360 S. We also have a fridge of course as you can see below, with Mark Libman from OzBoxLive and an Xbox MVP helping with the evangelising... ... but also the very unique...

Finally after a load of procrastination and change of ideas around what exactly I wanted to do with Pidgeo.com, I am back in action! There is no better event in the IT Pro calendar to re-launch the blog from than TechEd Australia up in the Gold Coast this week. Today I co-presented with my boss and IT Manager for MS AU and NZ Jonathan Lewis on how Microsoft IT implements our Green IT initiatives through things like the paperless office, virtualisation and datacentre improvements (which was my bit) and Microsoft technologies like Communicator and SharePoint. Jonathan and I were really happy with how the sessions went except for a few minor demo gliches that made us change things on the fly, but that is just part and parcel of technical demonstrations that keeps us on our toes. The feedback was excellent too and I hope that the attendees come and visit Pidgeo.com and ask loads of follow up questions from our session that I can share here. I was planning to do a huge post but I only got back to the...